A review of the literature concerning ethical leadership with respect to start-UPS

Ethical leadership is the phenomena in which leader directs the people by considering ethical beliefs and values. It is thus related to concepts such as trust, honesty, consideration, charisma and fairness. Furthermore, ethics is concerned with the virtuousness of individuals and their motives. This research paper is based on review of literature on Ethical Leadership with respect to start ups. Twenty articles were identified which were written by different authors, who primarily focussed on following topics. First one was why to follow Ethical Leadership, quality of leader, pros and cones of ethical leadershipit also highlights How ethical leadership is helping the organisation to be successful, values followed by Leader, believes and How leader ethically influences followers. Overall it was understood, Ethical Leadership is relatively complex topic to understand. It also focusses about how difficult it is for the organisation to Practice Ethical Leadership in the organisation. This paper also tries to identify Research gaps from research papers reviews, which will help to define Future scope for research on ethical leadership which is defined at the end of Research paper.